Concertgoers out in Europe will be able to bear witness to a killer death metal show later this summer, as Suffocation spends part of this summer to tear shit up in that continent. With various supporting acts like Warbringer, Psycroptic, and Skeletal Remains offering their own brands of brutality, this particular run of dates will
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In about a month’s time, fans of Metallica‘s wrongly-maligned album Load will be able to get their hands on what could be the absolute definitive version of the 1996 album. With the band’s already legendary pre-Black Album releases already getting the reissued and remastered, it was only a matter of time before Load got that
What do you get when you combinePuscifer,Primus, andA Perfect Circleunder one roof and a singular bill where at different points those three bands will kind of mind meld together to create something cool as hell? You get Sessanta. For a while now, Sessanta 2.0 has been making its way through North America and knowing they’d
Undecayed Swedish death metal horde Undecayed have returned with a vengeance, premiering their devastating new single, “The Descendants of Death.” The track rips straight from the band’s long-awaited debut album, In Death’s Image, set for release on May 21 through Lethal Scissor Records. Rooted in the savage tradition of ’90s American death metal, Undecayed channel
The welcome rebirth of progressive, psychedelic post-sludge metal heroes Kylesa continues with this gorgeous vinyl reissue of their 2009 landmark album, Static Tensions, and Decibel’s got an exclusive Mint Green Vinyl variant strictly limited to 150 copies! Out of print on vinyl since 2011, you can grab this new pressing—featuring iconic John Baizley cover art—on the band’s own Tension Spiral label imprint
Photo by Cameron Gile Want in on a dirty little secret? In the Kill Screen arcade, our guests are often asked whether they encounter fellow nerds among the bands with which they tour. That’s not just a layup of a question—we’re earnestly digging for names. It’s not always obvious who in our community is glued
Photo by Wallace Boesch Florida noise combo Meatwound are not here to make friends, they are here to clobber you. And on album number four, Macho, they do that effectively and repeatedly over ten new tracks. These dudes—Ari Barros (guitar), Mariano Iglesias (bass/programming), Dimitri Stoyanov (drums), Daniel Wallace (vocals)—sound like Killing Joke fed through a meat grinder.
Greetings, Decibel readers! It’s raining as I write this article. In fact, it’s basically been raining here all week, making the music in this week’s edition particularly fitting. A lot of the albums here will be very pleasing to listeners looking for heavy, dark, atmospheric metal of one kind or another. And there’s a new Candlemass release
Several weeks ago, my good friend and extreme metal maniac, Andrew Scott Thomas, was diagnosed with Stage 3 lung cancer. After complaining about shortness of breath, doctors discovered a large, 15 x 10 x 14 cm heterogeneously enhancing mass in his left lung, as well as another suspected pleural-based mass measuring approximately 8 cm. This type
Louisiana- and Texas-based black metal shoegaze band vide just dropped their new EP, Decorated in spiderweb, on May 2. Check out their track-by track rundown of the record below. Walk Like A Ghost This song is about feeling dead inside and the idea of walking around like a ghost. I’m here but I’m not here.
Chicago’s self-proclaimed “neo-barbarians,” Ready for Death, are ready to smash your face in (metaphorically) with new album Pay With Your Face. Coming just a handful of years after their eponymous debut, Pay With Your Face is a certified assbeater, like you’ll hear on the title track, streaming below. “Pay With Your Face” sees Ready for Death lean further
Indianapolis doom institution The Gates of Slumber have been a presence in the doom scene since the late ’90s, pushing their band of true doom around the world. Their latest album, The Gates of Slumber, came out last year and ended a 13-year gap between albums. It was the band’s first album after reforming in 2019
You’re kind of a getting a two-fer here with this track premiere, “Downfall,” from Swedish HM-2 stompers, For the Pyre, as we’re also throwing in the accompanying video, whereby vocalist Oannes Hagby gets buried alive by some faceless black-cloaked fiend. The track is a skin-shredding, scab-ripping dose of gnarly, thrashy Swedish DM from the band’s
If you’re a lover of cruises AND rock music, here the fuck is a little treat again. The lineup for next year’s Monsters of Rock Cruise is out and it’s riddled with a long of old school goodness. You can look at the lineup, which features Night Ranger, Queensrÿche, Lita Ford among many others, below.
Inhuman Nature London’s crossover metal maniacs Inhuman Nature return with Greater Than Death, their long-awaited sophomore album, out April 25 via Church Road Records. Picking up where their 2019 self-titled debut left off—and building on the relentless energy of 2022’s Under the Boot EP and their 2023 split with Ninth Realm—the UK thrashers have sharpened
Photo by David Gravelle For some bands that enter the Kill Screen arcade, their references to video games can either be subtle, cryptic or downright surprising. For the seasoned Soulsborne players among our readership, however, the connection to today’s subject could not be more clear. Wrath of Logarius, a relatively new addition to Season of
Portugal’s ANZV has arrived with a new song called “Imdugud,” off their upcoming album, Kur. The album is an all-enveloping atmospheric black metal composition with shades of death metal and waves of mystery cloaking the listener as every second passes. The band’s sound will be welcome to fans of Uada, Vanum, and Wolves in the
Greetings, Decibel readers! Have an especially deadly set of releases for you this week. But if you want to know who my favorite modern old-school heavy metal band is, scroll to the bottom. Enjoy! — Coffin Feeder – Big Trouble Do you like brutal death metal, 1980s action-movie references, and crystal clear political metaphors? Well,
“These are other kids. This is just an accident—just a couple of wild punks out raising hell.” So goes the line from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 that opens Supershitty to the Max!, the debut from Sweden’s famous rock sons the Hellacopters, founded in 1994 by Nicke Andersson alongside a couple of his ex-roadies in
Photography: Kevin Eisenlord, Anderson Hildebrando Brazilian extreme metal band Ophiolatry have shared “Death Tour,” the first single and video from their upcoming album, with us first. Serpent’s Verdict, out June 6, via Wormholedeath Records, is inspired by Greek mythology and tells the story of a warrior crossing the River Styx to approach the gates of